Think on These Things

What if you had woken up this morning to face another day as usual, beginning in a wheelchair and a ride in the bus to a school you would not be at if your IQ was above 55?

What if you wanted to be friendly to the new person sitting in the corner, but everyone told her not to shake your hand because they always seemed to misinterpret your welcoming actions as aggressive grabs?

What if you could only nod or shake your head when someone asked you questions you knew the answers to, and if your hands were perpetually in a position that looked somewhat like yoga?

What if the morning's feat was to recognize your own written name, first and last, and maybe say it?

What if you were miserable but could not explain the emotional turmoil within you and could only let it leak out in fights with your neighbors, complaints about a hot forehead, moans about a headache?

What if you couldn't read the Bible because you were illiterate and could never hope to be otherwise, and if you could not fathom the image of a Heavenly Father?

To echo Jane Kenyon, "It might have been otherwise."

"Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
Say to those with anxious heart,
'Take courage, fear not.
Behold your God will come with vengeance;
The recompense of God will come,
But He will save you.'
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Then the lame wiill leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy"(Isaiah 35:3-6a)